Acknowledgments

I am deeply grateful to all the following: Denis Akhapkin, Sergey Bunaev, Michael Berry, Marina Brodskaya, Bob Davies, Marya Dmytrieva, John Dunn, David Fel'dman, John and Carol Garrard, Katia Grigoruk, Anthony Graybosch, Fydor Guber, Anna Gunin, Gasan Gusejnov, Jochen Hellbeck, Alina Israeli, Ekaterina Korotkova-Grossman, Mikhail Lipyanskiy, Olga Meerson, Mark Miller, Anna Muza, Katarina Peitlova, Natasha Perova, Joe Roeber, Tim Sergay, Peter Stabler, Paul Vaughan, Lyuba Vinogradova, Sarah Young and also to other members of the SEELANGS e-mail discussion group and to my translation students at Queen Mary, University of London. The original manuscript of Vse techet now forms part of the Sakharov Collection in the archives of Harvard University. It was donated by Grossman’s biographer John Garrard; he himself received it from Grossman’s last love, Yekaterina Vasilievna Zabolotskaya, the prototype of Marya Ivanovna from Life and Fate.

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